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Hi Tracy
If I do the turn and burn at the rental should I bring my pop up crate or do you think it is ok to use the big cone at Dash? If I do use the big cone should I do any of the earlier steps in wrapping 1st?
If I do the parallel path I am thinking I should do some basic hits on the prop 1st since we have not done that anywhere else.

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Hi Tracy

Anything that you think he does well with at home and that you both enjoy is perfect for the rental! The environment will be a bit harder so keep the sessions to 90 seconds or 2 minutes to avoid him getting brain tired

Sounds good. I will keep them short and try the games he likes along with the pattern game.

You might be putting a lot of value for walking on your left, maybe? So he might have thought that looking at you is more valuable (at first) then he remembered to go to the prop.

Yes. We have been working on his walking and healing a little each day. He is getting too big and pulls so hard. But that’s on leash so interesting that he would generalize it. Is there something I should do differently on that side? Maybe not as far away or change up the distance to do easier and some harder?

Today is going to be break day. It’s nice out so we will go for a good walk. Maybe try the pattern game outside

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Hi Tracy

Yes I think the go did great so was bummed on the video fail. I will try it at the rental. Speaking of rental. Do you have thoughts on what I should work on? We said the deceleration part 2 with go and maybe the parallel based on your feedback from today. Would the pattern game be too soon?

He thought the cavalettis were baby jumps (a little too high and too far apart to truly trot) plus the allure of the food bowl was very exciting 🙂 I also love how comfy he was working around all the people and the other pup, even driving to the other person. It was a great confidence booster of a game

Agreed cavalettis were not placed on right. The other guy was just a husband of the other classmate so Dublin don’t know him at all. He did have a blast.

So we did parallel path again. I tried to be more in front and also more behind. I think I should have done a warm up rep or two before walking. It went ok. I realized I did too long the one side so we only did a few on the other side.
Then we did pattern game. I have done something like this before but don’t think waited still for engagement. I thought it went well too

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Hi Tracy
So far his tummy seems good. I will check into Charlie bears.

Parallel path. I was thrilled how he went to the prop. I will try the added steps tomorrow. We have rental at Dash on Saturday with our friends again so I can try any of the games with more room.

Countermotion: duh. I keep forgetting the little dance before 🙄

So I had video fail today. Tried to do part 2 deceleration. We had tried the bc to turn before but was going to add on the go to see if I have right idea to try it at the rental. Sad to say my video zoomed in. You can see Dublin but really can’t see me 🤣. Needless to say I am not sending you that one. We also did turn and burn. That was fun. Not sure why I didn’t think to turn our path the other way so I could move more 🙄. I will do that next time. I had stopped the video and Dublin wanted to wrap the other way so I recorded a couple of those too.
I added a fun clip from my class last night. It was a movement puzzle through a noisy curtain and baby tunnel. His cavalettis skills need some work but he had a blast. This was our 2nd time through the puzzle. We thought about doing a video later so Dublin got an extra turn.

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Hi Tracy

Thanks. It definitely seemed more clear what he was doing when watching the video on this one vs when training lol.

Today it was nicer out so we went for a nice walk then played with parallel path and counter motion with his kibble. I thought it went well. I need to set up a better block for the tossed treats the one direction so he doesn’t lose them. Kibble rolls too much 😂. We are still slowing trying other treats. So far no more tummy issues. We have in person class tonight so hopefully that won’t change.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks for the feedback on the fun run. Guess I had just thought the one time was the back door noise and the broken cookie for the 2nd. I appreciate the feedback and will make them shorter next time. They do fun runs once a month there and sometimes at another location.

Today we tried back up using his kibble. Not sure I was marking and doing right. So when I put the treat on the floor should it be my get it? Since I am not giving it to his mouth I realize I probably shouldn’t be using yes.

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Hi Tracy

Thanks. I think things are going well.

Today we did two runs at the fun run. Overall things went well. There was a little distraction and also crumbled treats that didn’t help for disconnection. We only had one dog between these sessions and it was his friend the 6 month old BC that we did the rental with. He did well with her being outside the ring

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Hi Tracy

Thanks. We are trying beef now and so far so good

I will keep treats low on the tippy board and Cato plank. Also will try another set up like it

Today we did a little more folding in. I still need to work on my mechanics for timing around the cone. Other than that I thought he did well. I did a little too long with the food and need to watch that also.

Tomorrow we will go to a fun run and try some more of the toy races with more space.

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Hi Tracy
Yesterday was another rest day. We did one of our in person classes Tuesday night and wish I had recorded it to show Dublin wrapping a chair and going under a pole with fleece and cups hanging. The instructor was thrilled how he was going so close to the chair and ignoring the gap in the fleece curtain lol. He just didn’t care about the cups or the fleece and was getting to his wrap to get cookies. Sad to say lots of chicken and we ended up with more tummy troubles. Stopping all chicken and moving to beef and rice now.
Today we did some of our wrapping and I tried to keep the bowls by my feet or behind me. These were home made pumpkin treats so my mechanics were a little off breaking them smaller. Plus my marker was off on a few. He was a good boy.
We also did some goat work on plank and a little obstacle course. The cot was new and the Cato plank was higher
I thought all went well

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Hi Tracy

Thanks! I was very happy with the toy play. I will add a bring it and try to do more praise. I have fault of being quiet.
I do wonder about the teething but I see what you mean for arousal and decompression. He is latching on and wanting to chew more of the tug toys than he did before so maybe both. I am looking for some new teething toys to maybe help there. For tug maybe one with more of a ball?

Today we did some tug on the wobble board and folding in with food. I thought the wobble board went well. I still need to remember to keep toy low. Omg I stopped the toy play and tried to do break after the wobble board and he kept getting on it. I finally had to do a scatter of treats to quickly pick it up lol
For the folding in, I added new marker of take for getting food from the dish since yes should mean from my hand.

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Hi Tracy

Poor Dublin! You might need to alternate training days: one day is training with some food, then the next day can be toy-only stuff so his body can process the treats and not get overloaded.

this time is was my fault he had a beef cheek to chew on when we visited with some friends at a brewery. I should’ve taken it away sooner.

I see what you mean for the tugging and the praise. I think his wanting to chew the toy is what surprised me instead of retrieving it. What should I have done differently then? He normally is very big into coming back with the toy.

Today we did more toy stuff. I added in the marker tug to get the tug in my hand. Also did some foot targeting with the “Tug”. It’s hard for me to drop the YES sometimes. Overall I was pleased. I wasn’t sure he would bring tug back and then latch onto the new tug.

We also did a small field trip yesterday to my MILs house. There are no pets there but lots of different things for him to look at and a creaky floor lol. He did great leading me around from room to room. After we had explored we played tug and did toy races. Again he did great. We walked a little outside but he didn’t seem to want to walk down the sidewalk past the house. I just let him lead me back to the garage and inside. Sorry no videos.

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Hi Tracy

Thanks. It has been slow progress and I hope I am doing his introduction to our house ok. He gets very fomo not being around the other dogs.

Yesterday was a break day for Dublins training. His stomach is having trouble again so he is on chicken and rice. I thought today we would try to see if we could go further around the cone using a toy. Well I have learned hungry Dublin and chicken rewards trumps toy.

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Hi Tracy

You can replace the go verbal with what you’d like your wrap verbal to be. Go will indicate a straight line, so we can name the turn even at this early stage. You were using ‘get it’ when you switched to the other side which is helpful here for sure! And the wrap verbal will emphasize the line when the bowl moves to a really hard spot and is visible on the other side of the cone.

Yes I realized when I changed sides that I had messed up the 1st side lol

I will add in extra cookies for the collar grabs too.
So do you think I am ok to try to go next step and move at little around the cone?

Omg love the egg McMuffin story lol.

Helper dogs.probably too much info to share here. Sad to say being around my other dogs is work in progress. Dublin wants to play all the time and they don’t like it. Frisco has corrected him appropriately and now Dublin licks at him too excessively and still jumps at his face and claws him. Frisco has not done a correction since. Aspen won’t correct him. Aspen will play but gets tired and try to leave. Brighton is starting to be a little better. At 1st the corrections were very scary but Brighton backed away at least. I am managing a lot. Separation and leash time. Treats in turn to reward sitting nice by each other. Not sure my husband is on board to help do outing with ours. I will chat with him about taking Frisco out since he is most confident. I will also check with some friends. Lol wish I could do road trip to see you. I am looking for new job so I have the time 😂

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. I will try to work on the additional markers

Today we tried the collar grab and folding in again. He was very hungry so not sure about the folding in with food lol

I think I need to add in some more noise for him. I am finding times that he is getting startled. For example we went to Dicks sporting goods. Had a nice visit until some boys were testing the basketballs. He stopped to look at them and determine what was the noise. Then went forward but was still good distance away and watched. The boy lost the ball and it came rolling towards Dublin and he got spooked. I wasn’t positive what to do. He did recover but I want to be better prepared next time. Another example was snow plow coming down our street when we were in the yard. That time he ran back to the house and we went in.

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Hi Tracy
For the wrapping should I continue to use that pop up then? LOL I didn’t even notice where the bowls were duh.

I will try the plank again and see if I can help him for those turns. It is interesting that those left turns were harder. That’s opposite of the cone wraps. We have actually already been doing sits, stand and downs on the plank. It’s one I use for the older dogs fitness.

Markers and reinforcement
Get It! Is the same for me. Thrown toy or food. I think he has this one. It was one of the 1st things I taught him.

I am thinking to use Tug for toy reward in my hand to grab and tug with me. I have not used toys as much with the other dogs. At least not consistently. I hope to do more with Dublin since he likes it so much.

SHHHHHHHHH This is a toy reward presentation for when I am moving and the dog can grab the toy in my hand and keep moving because I will be letting go of the toy. I don’t have anything like this in my markers so I need to think about it. I think I have used get it for this one too.
Yes- Cookie room service lol. Cookie to his mouth. Is it ok to deliver no mater where he is? Vs having snacks?

Catch! Couldn’t this be get it?

Find it. For when I mess up and drop the cookie he was supposed to get with the yes LOL.

Scatter- Drop a bunch of cookies on ground as reward so I can do something else or end session

Today we tried some of our toy mechanics. Someone once told me to have two identical toys to try the toy swapping so I did that today with him in the 1st exercise then I tried it with different ones. I have tried swapping or musical toys before but I had always dropped the 1st toy and he didn’t want to change to the new toy. These sessions went better than my earlier ones for sure. Drop was with a higher value cookie.

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